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Interested in learning Windows Server AppFabric? I hope so. It will be the backbone of the on-premise version of BizTalk in the coming years and based on news out of the PDC it looks like it will be moving to Azure (in some form) as well.

There are many resources out there for learning Windows Server AppFabric. However, not all of them are equal and you can spend a lot of time meandering through material without making a lot of progress.

Below is my suggested path for coming up to speed on it with the least amount of effort. First, you need to be familiar with some foundation items:

You must also understand IIS 7.0/7.5. If you are not familiar with it, head on over tohttp://learn.iss.net You’ll need to be familiar with things like Sites, ApplicationPools, Applications, AutoStart, Bindings, MSDeploy, hierarchical configuration with web.configs, etc.

Now you have the foundation you need to start learning about Windows Server AppFabric. This foundation is very important because if you don’t have it, you won’t be able to understand what Windows Server AppFabric is bringing to the table. It will also be more difficult to troubleshoot with out this foundation.

After you have the foundation items covered move on to learning about AppFabric itself: